He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.
KJV
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
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He esteemeth iron as straw,.... You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms (d) that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;
and brass as rotten wood; or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.
(d) Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)
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